Thanks guys, I appreciate all the suggestions.

The musics I listen to are mainly classical, a little bit soft rock and very little pop.
Murph/terzaghi, I sync mostly AIFF and Apple Lossless from iTune to the iPhone and Yes, compressed music sounds horrible \:\)
I'm having a hard time finding a good DAC to get the music out of the iPhone to play like a good CD-Player so I think I'll just stick with Mac-mini's optical out for now.

A colleage of mine got the m22s at home so I dropped by in the weekend to check them out, wow they are nice.
Right now I am contemplating what speakers to get. I am considering the m60s or the m22s since the speakers I am replacing are two really old 250Watt floorstanders.

Any suggestions or opinions on the m60s? (for a place about 300+ square feet)

thanks again.